On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:23:42AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Just to give an example what everybody is talking about, here is a > > snippet from the pan.desktop file (stripped by a few translations): > > > > [Desktop Entry] > > Name=Pan > > Name[da]=Pan nyhedslæser > > Name[de]=Pan > > Name[es]=Pan > > Comment=Pan, a Newsreader > > Comment[da]=Værktøj til læsning af nyhedsgrupper > > Comment[es]=Lector de noticias Pan > > Exec=pan > > Icon=pan.png > > Terminal=0 > > Type=Application > > > > Quite easy to understand IMO. > > Is this just for an icon on the desktop, or an entry in a menu? I don't > see anything that indicates where this goes in a menu hierarchy. Yes, both. A .desktop file lives in a directory tree. Its location in the tree defines where you see it in the menu. A snippet of Tree output for /usr/share/gnome/apps: |-- Applications | |-- AbiWord.desktop | |-- Mozilla-editor-snapshot-gtk2.desktop | |-- Mozilla-editor.desktop | |-- gcdmaster.desktop | `-- gcombust.desktop |-- Development | |-- devhelp.desktop | `-- glade.desktop : It's a very simple format with lots of flexibility. And a .desktop can be dragged right to a Gnome or KDE3 panel or desktop - this is a good thing IMO. We also have a couple of options for update-menus in the case of KDE and Gnome - probably we would use /usr/share/menu for these things. Either the DEs can be pointed at these menus (not unreasonably) or a symlink tree can be created by update-menus. The latter allows more flexibility when deciding where things appear in the menu - submenus could be collapsed if the parent menu has few options, KDE/Gnome applications could be preferred under their respective platforms, that sort of thing. This is after all what hints were originally intended for. I don't think Gnome or KDE would reject intelligent patches for making their internal menu systems able to do this sort of thing, but that's a little more work. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net> Sooner or later, BOOM! <Knghtbrd> "... you will more than likely see all kinds of compiler warnings scrolling by on the screen. These are normal and can be safely ignored." <LordHavoc> Knghtbrd: is that a note attached to some M$ code? <Knghtbrd> No, it's a note about a bunch of GNU stuff.
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